The Australian team got off to an explosive start in their opening series of best-of-ones matches, putting aside worries from the regional qualifiers (RMR).

FlyQuest overwhelmed Complexity and BIG

FlyQuest went 26-11 overall on day one of the Perfect World Shanghai Major, including a 13-5 win over Complexity and a 13-6 win over BIG.

The German team (BIG) had almost no chance on the Nuke map, winning only 3 rounds on the defensive side (CT side) before Christopher "⁠dexter⁠" Nong extinguished any hope of a comeback in the second half . dexter scored 4 kills with SMG, completely nullifying the advantage from the pistol round that BIG just had after switching sides.

The FlyQuest team is currently comfortably in the 2-0 bracket ahead of the best-of-threes series, in stark contrast to fnatic, who fell to the 0-2 bracket after losing to Cloud9. Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer and his teammates had a close match against Wildcard on the Mirage map, but were completely overwhelmed by Cloud9 on Ancient.

Cloud9's Kaisar "⁠ICY⁠" Faiznurov shined in the match against fnatic, scoring 21 kills in just 18 rounds, including an impressive M4 hero triple (3 kills with an unarmored M4). He achieved a rating of 2.07 in this match.